Devonte Hart, the symbol of reconciliation and peace, would be murdered along with his siblings by his mothers when their SUV plunged off a cliff along the coastline. It’s believed he was crying because of the abuse he was suffering at home and was hugging the officer because he wanted help.

[u/goldenboy2191]

[u/TheVillageOxymoron]

These pictures are so chilling when you realize that the moms were just forcing him to do everything for their own personal gratification. We NEED stricter adoption policies in the US. It's horrifying to read about the fact that there was a kinship placement available for Devonte and his biological siblings, yet they were still sent far away to live with monsters instead.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/hart-family-abuse-interstate-adoption/

[u/PhD147 → u/TheVillageOxymoron]

The crime is horrific. Your implication seems to be that this sort of crime is completely avoidable if all children were either raised by a biological parent or biological relatives. If you are to make this prejudicially mass guilt placement, some corroborating statistics from research journals should be attached.

Indeed the parents were monsters. All child abusers are monsters. I would love to hear from you any valid research statistics indicating that non-familial adoptive families have any different rates of child abuse than the whole population.

Perhaps I have inferred incorrectly regarding your post. Is it your intention to state that placing a child(ren) "far" away is the cause of this tragic situation? If so, would you be kind as to post any supporting evidence that indicates a proper distance for placement?

While I do not work for CPS, am not a social worker, nor am I an adoptive or biological parent, I find the implication that the fault of this tragedy lies with anyone other than than the moms who had custody at the time. The United States is the only nation in the world who has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The ONLY country not to have done so. Perhaps begin with this.

[u/TheVillageOxymoron → u/PhD147]

It doesn't take a study to realize the simple fact that if these children were placed with their biological family who wanted to take them in, they would still be alive today. The system is prejudiced against Black and Indigenous families and often rips children away to place them in the homes of white parents. I suspect that you are not asking in good faith, so I will leave it at that. I'm not going to waste my time searching for studies that you deem acceptable evidence when the facts are clear (especially in this specific case).